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“Will not hurt me.” “I am aware/ 7 said a Christian soldier, **that I have many hardships, trials and dangers to meet ; but they will not hurt me if I will only do my duty. All these priva tions and perils tend to humble me, and if T can by their means more successfully mor tify the deeds of the body—if, by their means, I can uproot pride, vanity, covet ousness, and all kindred passions—l shall have occasion to tha'nk God that duty called me tc be a soldier.” How true is this sentiment! If we will but improve those present troubles so as to benefit our hearts, we will have occasion to thank God for his chastisements. But if we allow our hearts to grow hard—if we al low our affections and finer feelings to be come blunted under our present adversities, then is our loss lamentable ! As physical hardships and the heavy hand of adversity are pressing us sere, let us be sure that we do not bring upen ourselves a worse calam ity—the loss of moral purity and religious refinement. “ Walk in the spirit,” and and then will your Christian graces grow stronger and brighter in consequence of your calamities. Then you can say with the Psalmist, “It was good for me that I have been afflicted. 77 — Rich. Ch. Advocate. ► “This is a time of Prayer.” to ——— So said a cotemporary journal in January, 1861. But the prayers of that day did not avert the calamities. There is a most ur gent necessity for fervent prayer in the state of the church and country. “ There never was such a time of prayer as this. I be lieve that since the New Testament Church was organized there never has been so much prayer as is offered now. 77 The Christian dispensation commenced in prayer. The most wonderful outpouring .of God’s Spirit was preceded and ushered in by that little prayer meeting of tire early Christians. Aud prayer is yet to accom plish mighty things for Zion. God has promised the world to his Son. Prayer is to he made continually for this. For this end we must pray for souls, that thus he may receive the reward of his sufferings.— Ex. Paper. ■ 41 A Wife. What a sacred name, what a responsible office! she must be the unspotted sanctuary to which wearied men flee from the crimes of the world, and feel that no sin dare en ter there. A wife ! she must be as pure as spirits around the everlasting throne, that man may kneel to her in adoration without abasement. A wife ! she must be the guar dian angel of his footsteps on earth, and guide them to heaven; so firm in virtue that should he for a moment waver, she can yield him support and place him upon its firm foundation ; so happy in conscious in nocence that, when from the perplexities of the whole world, he turns to his home, he may never find a frown where he sought a smile. Such, my son, thou seekest in a wife; and reflect well ere thou choosest.— Open not thy bosom to the trifler ; repose not the head on the breast which nurseth envy, and folly, and vanity. Hope not for obedience where the passions are untamed, and expect not honor from her that honor eth not the God that made her. An old Sailor’s Experience. An old sailor shortly after his conversion, gave the following statement of his expe rience : u I am just eight months old to-night in my Christian life. I was born again on the sea. And what reason have Ito thank God for what he is doing among the men of the ocean ! How happy have 1 been these eight months of my Christian life ! Before I was a slave —slave to Satan—slave to the land sharks —slave to my vices. O ! what a miserable drudge I was, bowing down my hack in the cruel aud base service of my master. You know what I was—how mis erable—on ship or shore, always miserable in my sinful ways and sinful pursuits. “But when the Spirit overtook me, con vinced me of my guilt and danger, and pre pared my heart to attend to the call of the Gospel, leading me to Christ, and when, as a poor despairing sinner, I came to him begging for mercy, and he showed me mer cy, I cannot tell you what a freedom that was into which I was introduced. 77 . Principle. Never confide in the principle of a timid man. He who has no courage cannot be said to have principle, he may disposed to virtue, and may prefer good to evil, but he is in the sport of chance, and the slave of circumstances. What avails the best incli nations, if resolution be wanting to put them in practice ? A feeble and irresolute man who means well, is more dangerous than an audacious and confirmed villain.— You know the latter, and are on your guard against him ; you rely upon the good in tentions of the former, and discover too late, like the son of Israel, he is unstable as water, and shall not excel. A timid man can never become great; if he possesses talent, he cannot apply it; he is trampled upon by the envious and awed by the swag gering: he is thrust from the direct path which alone leads to honor and fame, by every aspirant who possesses more spirit than himself. Harmony op Army Chaplains.—A chaplain writes from within the lines at Atlanta to the Southern Christian Advo cate : “ I returned to the fort in Sear’s brig ade just as Bro. Lattimore was receiving some candidates for baptism, and he gave all Christians—Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists and Episcopalians l —an invitation to extend to them the hand of Christian fellowship. With the Episcopal chaplain, 1 advanced and gave those Baptist brethren a cordial grasp of the hand. It is comfort ing to the true Christian heart to see the harmony and good will existing between’ the chaplains of different denominations in the army.” For the Index. A BLESSING IN DISGUISE. (A Story for Young Ladies .) BY MRS. MARY A. MCCRIHHON. The following incidents from the life of one whom the writer knew and loved in early life, are instructive, and, as such, should not be withheld from the public.— Next to our own experience, we are best instructed by that of others; hence I hope to be forgiven for invading the sanctity of private life, for a lesson for the young lady readers of the Index. They are justly en titled to any events or circumstances which may be of practical utility to them, and such I. esteem the brief history of Lillie Bird. Lillie was, without comparison, the most beautiful creature I ever beheld. I don’t mention this merely to increase the interest of the story, as is customary with writers of fiction, but simply because it is true, and is, par consequence , a part of the history.— “Tastes differ concerning the beauty of the “human face divine”; but there are some rare cases which approximate so nearly to the acme of perfection, but dimly discerned in our ideal perceptions, all agree in pronouncing them lovely. Lillie’s beauty belonged to this class. No one could look upon her wondrous loyeliness without a thrill of pleasure, not unmixed with pain, as tho 7 she was a creature of a different sphere from that of common mortals. But there is no use in trying to describe that which the painter’s art alone could have represented with any degree of correctness; so I pass on to other points of deeper interest. She was the only daughter of the second marriage of both her parents, and had been reared in a home of elegance and an atmos phere of love. She was gentle, affectionate and confiding, but, as she grew towards womanhood, the great admiration which her beauty everywhere excited could not fail to have some effect on her character. This exhibited itself in a fondness for society and a love of admiration, which were some what detrimental to her progress as a stu dent. In order to avoid interruptions of this nature, her parents sent her to Macon College. Here she acquitted herself well in her studies, and in a few months became deeply pious. Her letters now breathed a depth and earnestness of devotion but sel dom seen in one of her years. It was a treat to read them. Her soul was filled to overflow with love to God and all his crea tures. She seemed particularly anxious that all her young friends at home should taste of the riches of God’s love as she had done, and in all her letters to her mother she sent messages to some of them, begging them to taste and see that the Lord was good. We all looked forward with great eager ness to her return home the next summer .—wondered how she would deport herself, and if she would be always talking about religion. She came, the same sweet gentle creature that she went away, only a little thinner, and even lovelier than before. Her countenance had received the crowning grace, the spiritual charm, the evidence of deeper thought and holier feeling, which bad only been wanting to make it perfect. She did not leave us long in doubt as to the position she would take religiously; for a few Sabbaths after her return she arose in an “ experience meeting,” and told what God had done for her. The effect was magical. Think of a fair, young girl, only sixteen, standing in the midst of grey-haired sires, stately matrons, silly girls, and wild young men, telling, with a beaming countenance, of the influence of God’s love upon her heart ! Some deemed her strange, and some an enthusiast, but many more were con vinced that there was a reality in the reli gion of Jesus. Her position being now fully defined, she moved on in the even tenor of her way, the light and joy of her home, and an ornament to the society in which she moved. Many admirers clustered around her, and many suitors sought her hand, but in the midst of them all she never swerved from the straight and narrow way marked out by her blessed Master. - Among her most devoted admirers was William Maxwell, the son of the Governor of the State. He was handsome, talented, and very pleasing ia his manners, though decidedly irreligious. This she, no doubt, regarded as an objection at first, but after awhile she began to love him, and love, which the ancients represented as blind, is also deaf to the voice of reason. If the command, “Be not unequally yoked to gether with unbelievers,” ever occurred to her mind, she doubtless evaded it by think ing she might be the means of his conver sion. Fancy now had sway, instead of con science, and fancy invested him with every noble attribute of heart and mind, besides throwing a rosy mantle over those imperfec tions which now and then obtruded them selves upon her view. Alas ! for poor doat ing woman ! when she clasps the tendrils of her affections about an unreliable support, without help from the Most High, she is lost forever! Lillie’s parents approved of the match, and so she accepted William Maxwell. Her mother, however, stipulated that the mar-’ riage should not take place till the next winter, and as the parties urged no particu lar objection, this arrangement was agreed upon. She was, in the meantime, thrown much with the Maxwell family, who were not only irreligious, but volatile in disposi tion. Being naturally plastic and yielding in temper, she endeavored to conform to their manners and habits as much as she could consistently, and the consequence was she soon grew cold and indifferent about her religion. Do not censure her harshly —“ Evil communications corrupt good man ners ” comes from the pen of inspiration, and is therefore as true as a law of nature. She became fonder of frivolous society, and less scrupulous about religious observances, but she had not wholly forsaken the path of duty, or forgotten her allegiance to Christ. Often when alone she mourned over the declension of her faith and resolved to be more punctual in her private devotions; but the influences about her were all against holiness, and so she gradually drifted down with the current. She determined, however, when she was once married, to live differ ently. Then she fondly imagined she would be less exposed to temptation, not knowing, poor girl, that a husband’s influence was much gTeater than a lover’s. As winter began to approach, she went to the capital of the State, (whither the Maxwells had returned from their summer residence,) to spend a lew weeks with a friend, and also to purchase her bridal trousseau. The season was unusually gay, and her beauty and grace making her an object of great attractien, she was led into a perfect round of frivolous pleasures. Wil liam Maxwell was proud of his beautiful young bride elect, and regretted exceeding ly that she did not dance. He laughed in her presence at the puritanic prejudice against dancing, until she became ashamed of her scruples and yielded. She only needed this to make her thg, reigning belle of the capital. Admiration beamed from every eye, and compliments fell from every tongue, as her graceful form floated around in the mazes of the dance; and in the excite ment of triumph the still small voice of con science was hushed. Like all novitiates, she now outstripped the oldest devotees at pleasure’s shrine.— No eye was so bright, no laugh so light, or heart so full of sparkling merriment, as hers. The few weeks of her visit soon rolled away, and she returned home, dejected and mis erable. The bright wine of pleasure, which had been so sweet while to her lips, left no abiding joy bebird. That peace of con science, which had made her home the “ dearest spot of earth,” was gone, and she longed again for the giddy dance and whirl of fashionable life, to-fill the aching void within her heart. A mother’s quick dis cerning eye noted the change in her dar ling’s look and’manner, though unobserved by others; so Mrs. Bird followed Lillie to her room the first evening after her return, and asked for an explanation. “ I want to withdraw from the church,” she replied. “I was mistaken in thinking myself a Christian. I love parties and dancing better than preaching and praying, and I am not going to act the hypocrite about it.” “ That is a temptation from Satan, my dear,” her mother replied, after dropping a silent tear. “ Yon were converted—l can not doubt it, and you will be miserable if you withdraw from the church.” “ I am miserable in it, and I suppose it can be no worse out; besides, William likes to have me dance, and I intend to please him in preference to any one else.” “ I hoped you would exert a good influ ence over him, instead of his leading you astray. Don’t act rashly, darling; wait and think more about it before you decide to tear yourself away from God’s people.” “ My mind is already made upon that point.” “ I will pray for you, dear, that it may be changed; good night.” As soon as Mrs. Bird descended to her own apartment, she fell upon her knees and offered up a fervent prayer that God would forgive her erring child and restore her to His favor once again. She had been some time engaged in earnest supplication, when she heard Lillie scream fearfully. In an instant she bounded up the steps, burst into the room, and beheld her darling struggling with flames of fire that had caught her dressing-gown, and were fast wreathing themselves about her beautiful face. It was a fearful moment, but with rare presence of mind the excited mother seized a pitcher of wafer and threw its contents on the flames, then gathered the rug from the hearth and wrapped it about her shoulders. With almost superhuman efforts she at length succeeded in extinguishing the fire, but not before poor Lillie was dangerously burned. As soon as she was clothed and laid in bed, she whispered, “ Pray for me, mother, lam going to die—and oh! lam so so unprepared.” The physician, who was immediately summoned to her bed-side, pronounced it a critical case, but was not altogether without hope of her recovery. She, however, did not shares his hopes. To her death seemed inevitable; hut she said'she would not re gard it if God would only forgive her sins. All the ingratitude of her past conduct now rose before her in its true light, and drove her almost to despair. Her agony was dis tressing. Every one who came about her, whom she believed to be a Christian, was urged to pray for her, and with almost every breath she sent up a petition for herself. At last, when she had almost given up to despair, God, who never forsakes his chil dren, though they wander far from him, restored peace to her troubled soul-. Her joy was now as great as had been her former sorrow. Her whole soul was suffused with love, and a joy ineffable beamed from her countenance. How very beautiful she looked as she lay praising God even for her affliction, and exhorting all who came about hor to meet her in heaven ! “ Do not weep for me,” she would say to grieving friends; “I am thankful even for these painful burns, which have snatched me from the brink of ruin. I was in the downward road and nothing else would have arrested me; and what are these light afflictions compared to the bliss of heaven ? Ah ! heaven will be all the sweeter for my sufferings here. How merciful and good is God in not cutting off my brittle thread of life without a moment’s warning. When her betrothed first stood beside her, weeping as if his heart would break, she shed some natural tears of sympathy, and then hurst into an ecstacy of joy,— “ Oh, William, my darling, we can spend an eternity together! A few years will make no difference in great eternity, and our joy will only be the sweeter for having been delayed. Our happiness here would have been short at best, and it might have cost us our immortal souls. But, William, you must prepare to meet me. Whither I go you can not come without an interest in the blood of Jesus. Promise me, dear love, that you will seek forgiveness, lead a Chris tian life, and meet me in heaveD.” The promise was given, and with a se raphic burst of joy she lifted her eyes to heaven, murmuring, “ Oh, glory! glory! ” and with the words still trembling on her lips, she died. All felt that an angel had been taken to its proper element. It seemed, -too, that the heavenly spirits, who had been sent to bear her away, had left the aroma of their wings within the atmosphere, for, instead of grief, a sense of delicious joy pervaded every heart. Even now, when I look around upon the storms of war that rage about us, I can but think, sweet Lillie is safe from it all. Slie was taken from the evil to come. SPIRITUAL REVIVAL THE WANT OF THE CHURCH. “0 ! ” says one, “if we had another minister. O!if we had another kind of worship. 0! if we had a different sort of preaching.” Just as if that were all! It is, “0! if the Lord would come into the hearts of the men you have got. O ! if he would make the forms you do use full of power.” You do not want fresh ways or fresh machinery; you want the life in what you have. There is an engine on a rail way; a train has to he moved. “Bring another engine,” says one, “ and another, and another.” The engines are brought, but the train does not movg at all. Light the 4ire and get the steam up, that is what you want; not fresh engines. We do not want fresh ministers, or fresh plans, or fresh ways, though many might be invented, to make the church better; we only want life in what we have got. Given, the very man who has .emptied your chapel; given, the self-same person that brought your prayer meeting low; God can make the chapel crowded to the doors yet, and give thousands of souls to that vefy man. It is not anew man that is wanted; it is the life of God in him. Do not be crying out for something new; it will no more succeed, of itself, than what you have. Cry, “ O Lord, revive thy work!” I have noticed in different churches that the minister has thought first of this contrivance, then of that. He tried one plan, and thought that would suc ceed ; then he tried another —that was not it. Keep to the old plan, hut get life in it. We do not wAt anything new; “the old is better”—let us keep to it. But wo want the life in the old. ‘0 ! ” men cry, “we have nothing but the shell; they are going to give us anew shell.” No, sirs, we will keep the old one, but we will have the life in the shell too; we will have the old thing ; but we must, or else we will throw the old away, have the life in the old. 0! that God would give us life. The church wants fresh revivals. 0! % the days of Cambus lang again, when Whitefield preached with power. O ! for the days when in this place hundreds were converted sometimes under one solitary disoourse. O ! for the age when eyes should he strained, and ears should be ready to receive the word of God, and when men should drink in the word of life, as it is, indeed, the very water of life, which God ‘ ’-jy -■ ■ ■ ■ -- gives tfTdying souls f*X)! for the age of deep feeling—the age of deep, thorough going earnestness ! Let us ask God for it; let us plead with him for it. Perhaps he has the man, or the men, somewhere, who will shake the world yet; perhaps even now he is about to pour forth a mighty influence upon men, which shall make the church as wonderful in this age as it ever was in any age that has passed. THE ETERNAL FAREWELL. To be cast out of heaven is an awful thing. Some of you have parents there; you have dear friends there; they grasped your hand in death, and said, “Farewell, until we meet you.” But if you never see the kingdom of God, you can never see them again. ‘-<My mother,” says one, “sleeps in the graveyard; I often go to the tomb and put some flowers upon it, in re membrance of her who nursed me; but must I never see. her again ?” No, never again ; no, never, unless you are born again. Mothers, you have had infants that have gone to heaven; you would like to see your family all around the throne; but you will never see your children more, unless you are born again. ‘Will you bid adieu this day to the immortal ? Will you say fare well this hour to your glorified friends in Paradise ? You must say so, or else be converted. You must**fly to Christ, and trust in him, and his Spirit must renew you, or else you must lookup to heaven and say, “Choir of the blest! I shall never hear you sing; parents of my youth, guardians of my infancy, I love you, but between you and myself there is a great gulf fixed ;I am cast away, and you are saved.” 0,1 beseech you, think on these matters. THE BATTLE. And behold, God Himself is with us for our Captain- —2. Chron. xiii . 12. The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord migh ty in battle. — Ps. xxiv. 8. He forgetteth not the ci'y of the humble. Ps. ix, 12. W hile you, O soldier, are engaged in the field, the feeble hands which are unequal to any other weapon, will grasp the sword of the Spirit: and from myriads of humble contrite hearts, and weeping will mingle in .its ascent with the shock of arms. And Thou, sole Ruler among the children of men, to whom the shield of the earth be longs, gird on thy sword, Thou most Migli ty; go forth’■vtifh our hosts in the day of bat tle. to their hereditary valor,that confidence of success which springs from thy presence. Pour into their hearts the spirit of departed heroes. Inspire them with Thy own ; and while lead by Thy hand, and fighting under thy banner, open Thou their eyes to behold in every valley, aud in every plain what the prophet beheld by the same illumination- —olmviota ot five and hor des of fire. * Father, I cry to thee ! The smoke ofthe roaring cannon surrounds me, The lightnings of battle gleam bright around me; O Thou Ruler of battles, I cry to thee— My Father, lead thou me ! ~ BOOKS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOLS THE S. S. Board of the Southern Baptist Convention (Greenville, S. C.,) publish the fol lowing books: Child’s Question Book on the Four Gospels, by B. 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